Norma Jeane (pick any last name, she had a lot of them) was a Surfgirl. She developed the knack for surfing waves and Hollywood, and surfed her way to fame, but not fortune. But she never really cared about money. "I'm not interested in money, I just want to be wonderful". Some of the very best and most erotic pictures of Norma Jeane--Marilyn Monroe, were taken of her on the beach, by the surf. She took enormous interest in her photos, and the art of photography. She had carefully watched her mother, who at one time had worked as a film editor in Hollywood, and had a keen sense of how to smile and pose herself. But, in the end, having achieved enormous personal fame,  personal intimacy with some of most famous and powerful people of her era, she could never really be happy or at ease with herself.